EU Assembling CERT

Interesting to see that the EU is starting to get its act together with a CERT of their own.

From Infosecurity (USA):

The European Union has set up a team to establish a Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) to counter the threat of cyber attacks against EU institutions, bodies and agencies.

The preparatory team of IT security experts from the EU institutions, including ENISA, will be given a year before the conditions for establishing a full-scale CERT for the EU institutions are finalized.

This is an excellent idea. I’m curious as to why it took this long to get the ball rolling in the first place.

While I find this interesting I find it more intriguing that the head of the US “cyber command” is in Switzerland this week attending the Bilderberg meetings. Yes, I watched too many episodes of Fringe and XFiles. What can you do?

From the site Public Intel:

BEL	Davignon, Etienne	Minister of State, Honorary Chairman
DEU	Ackermann, Josef	Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank AG
GBR	Agius, Marcus	Chairman, Barclays PLC
USA	Alexander, Keith B.	Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
INT	Almunia, Joaquín	Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Competition
USA	Altman, Roger C.	Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
FIN	Apunen, Matti	Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
PRT	Balsemão, Francisco Pinto	Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister

For the full list head on over to their site.

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